Despite a stellar double act, Charles Edwards makes a new Met I puritani more confusing than it need be

United StatesUnited States The Met: Live in HD – Bellini, I puritani: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of the Metropolitan Opera / Marco Armiliato (conductor). Broadcast live (directed by Habib Azar) from the Metropolitan Opera, New York, on 10.1.2026 and seen at Everyman Chelmsford on 13.1.2026. (JPr)

Lisette Oropesa (Elvira) and Lawrence Brownlee (Arturo) © Ken Howard/The Met

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Creative design and collaborative artistry make Prototype’s Precipice a triumph of small-production opera

United StatesUnited States Prototype Festival 2026 [2] – Rima Fand, Precipice: Bass string quintet, piano & mandolin / Mila Henry (music director). La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club, New York, 9.1.2026. (DS)

Daisy Press and Alison Tolan-Mee in Precipice © Maria Baranova

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Musica Sacra gives Christmas favorites the deluxe treatment at Carnegie Hall

United StatesUnited States Various, ‘Classics for Christmas’: Kathryn Lewek (soprano), Mariko Anraku (harp), Musica Sacra Chorus and Orchestra / Kent Tritle and Michael Sheetz (conductors). Carnegie Hall, New York, 17.12.2025. (RP)

Kathryn Lewek (soprano) and Kent Tritle (conductor) with the Musica Sacra Chorus and Orchestra © Brian Hatton

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Measured voices: Brahms with Vengerov and Friends at Carnegie Hall

United StatesUnited States Isaac Stern Memorial Concert – Brahms, ‘Maxim Vengerov and Friends’: Maxim Vengerov, Vilde Frang (violins), James Ehnes (viola), Daniel Müller-Schott (cello), Yefim Bronfman (piano), Anthony McGill (clarinet). Isaac Stern Auditorium, Carnegie Hall, 16.12.2025. (ES-S)

[l-r] Maxim Vengerov, Vilde Frang, Yefim Bronfman, James Ehnes and Daniel Müller-Schott in Brahms’s Piano Quintet © Chris Lee

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The Met’s Andrea Chénier has impressive singing from Beczała and Yoncheva and Rustioni’s sure hand

United StatesUnited States The Met: Live in HD – Giordano, Andrea Chénier: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of the Metropolitan Opera / Daniele Rustioni (conductor). Broadcast live (directed by Gary Halvorson) from the Metropolitan Opera, New York, to Cineworld Basildon, Essex, 13.12.2025. (JPr)

Piotr Beczała (Andrea Chénier) and Sonya Yoncheva in Act I © Karen Almond/Met Opera

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